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Boston Symphony Orchestra

Spanish conductor Gustavo Gimeno and American violinist Hilary
Hahn join forces for Dvořák's Violin Concerto, composed in 1879 for
the great Joseph Joachim. At times lyrical, Dvořák's concerto also
contains passages of great energy based on music from his Czech
heritage, especially in the delightful, dance-like finale. Also
based on music from Central Europe, György Ligeti's early "Romanian
Concerto" is a Bartók influenced orchestral work from early in the
great Hungarian composer's career. Robert Schumann's First Symphony
is bursting with energy, power, and optimism.

Featured Performers

From the 2015/16 Gustavo Gimeno takes up his post as Music
Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. He begins
his partnership with a focus on the first symphonies of Beethoven,
Mahler, Bruckner, Schumann and Shostakovich and with singers from
the Wiener Singverein he will conduct Verdi's Requiem. At the
contemporary end of the spectrum he is conducting works of Rihm,
Berg and Berio. His soloists in his first season include Isabelle
Faust, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Leonidas Kavakos, Anja Harteros and
Stefan Dohr.

After a sensational debut with Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2014
after return concerts in Amsterdam he will tour with the orchestra
to Taiwan and Japan. He also returns to the Munich Philharmonic,
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the Verdi Orchestra, Milan. He
will make debuts on the podiums of the Orchestra National de
France, Orchestra National de Capitol du Toulouse, Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle and the Philharmonia
Zurich.

Alongside his USA debut with Pittsburgh Symphony and Cleveland
Orchestra's Blossom Festival Gustavo Gimeno will also make his
debut with Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the 2016 Ravinia Festival.
In Japan he will also be on the podiums of the Tokyo Metropolitan
Symphony Orchestra and Osaka Philharmonic. Recent highlights
included debuts in 2014/15 season with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, City
of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Danish National Symphony
Orchestra.

In Spring 2015 Gimeno made his debut at the Palau de les Arts in
Valencia conducting Bellini's "Norma" in a new Davide Livermore
production. In February 2014, on the occasion of his sensational
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra debut Gimeno conducted the European
debut of Magnus Lindberg's second Piano Concerto with the
Concertgebouw Orchestra and Yefim Bronfman, (its' dedicatee).
Gustavo Gimeno has worked closely with many composers including
Theo Loevendie, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös,
George Benjamin and the young Spanish composer Francisco Coll.

Gustavo Gimeno's international conducting career began in 2012
as assistant to Mariss Jansons with the Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra. He spent several insightful years assisting the late
Claudio Abbado with the Orchestra Mozart, Bologna, the Lucerne
Festival Orchestra and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. In 2013 he also
assisted Bernard Haitink with the Orchestra Mozart. Working closely
with such mentors has had a profound impact on the formative years
of his conducting career.

Gustavo Gimeno was born in Valencia, Spain, and lives in
Amsterdam. Between 2001 - 2013 he was Principal Percussionist of
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Three-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn is
renowned for her virtuosity, expansive interpretations, and
creative programming. Her dynamic approach to music-making and her
commitment to sharing her musical experiences with a broad global
community have made her a fan favorite.

Hahn's distinct stylistic choices honor the traditional violin
literature while delving into the unexpected. Since last season, in
recital tours across the United States, Europe, and Japan, Hahn has
been premiering six new partitas for solo violin by composer
Antón García Abril. The works are Hahn's first commissioning
project for solo violin and her first commission of a set of works
from a single composer. "In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores" is
Hahn's multi-year commissioning project, started in 2011, to
revitalize the duo encore genre. Hahn's album of those encores won
a Grammy for Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance in
2015, and the print edition of the complete sheet music will be
released by Boosey & Hawkes. Complete with Hahn's fingerings,
bowings, and performance notes, the sheet music will ensure that
the encores become part of the active violin repertoire. A special
vinyl edition of the recording will also be released.

Hahn's 2015-16 artist residency at Vienna's
Konzerthaus featured her performing Mozart with the
Camerata Salzburg, Dvořák with the Vienna Symphony, and Vieuxtemps
with the Vienna Philharmonic, plus a solo recital. As part of
her residency Hahn piloted free - and sometimes surprise
- concerts for parents with infants, a knitting circle, and a
community dance workshop as the live music for their end-of-year
performance. The 2016-17 season will see Hahn
in residence with both the Seattle Symphony and the
Orchestre National de Lyon. In conjunction with her performances
with those orchestras and her recitals in Seattle and Lyon, Hahn
will create outreach activities customized to each city. She will
also continue her free community-oriented concerts, encouraging
music lovers to combine live performance with their interests
outside the concert hall. Other activities in the 2016-17 season
include European concerto tours with the Czech Philharmonic, the
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, and the Orchestre
National de Lyon; appearances with the Cincinnati, Detroit,
Indianapolis, and National Symphony Orchestras, the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio and Swedish Radio
Symphony Orchestras, and the Spanish National Orchestra; and
recital tours with pianist Robert Levin throughout North America
and Europe.

Hahn took her first violin lessons in the Suzuki program of the
Peabody Institute in her hometown of Baltimore at the age of three,
and at five she began lessons with Klara Berkovich, who had just
emigrated from St. Petersburg. At ten, Hahn was admitted to the
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to study with Jascha
Brodsky, a former pupil of Eugène Ysaÿe and Efrem Zimbalist. Hahn
completed her university requirements at sixteen, having already
made her solo debuts with the Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Utah, and
Bavarian Radio symphony orchestras; the Philadelphia, Cleveland,
and Budapest Festival orchestras, and the New York Philharmonic,
among others. Hahn continued her studies for three more years,
delving into languages, literature, and writing, and received her
bachelor's degree at nineteen. She spent four summers at the
Marlboro Music Festival and another four in the total-immersion
German, French, and Japanese programs at Middlebury College. She
holds honorary doctorates from Ball State University and Middlebury
College.
Hahn has released sixteen albums on the Deutsche Grammophon and
Sony labels, in addition to three DVDs, an Oscar-nominated movie
soundtrack, an award-winning recording for children, and various
compilations. Spanning an extremely wide range of repertoire,
including Bach, Stravinsky, Elgar, Beethoven, Vaughan Williams,
Mozart, Schoenberg, Paganini, Spohr, Barber, Bernstein, Ives,
Higdon, and Tchaikovsky, her recordings have received every
critical prize in the international press and have met with equal
popular success. All have debuted in the top ten of
the Billboard classical chart.

Hahn's first Grammy came in 2003 for her Brahms and Stravinsky
concerto album. A pairing of the Schoenberg and Sibelius concerti
spent 23 weeks on the charts and earned Hahn her second Grammy. In
2010, she premiered her recording of Jennifer Higdon's Violin
Concerto along with the Tchaikovsky concerto. Higdon's composition,
written for Hahn, went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. In 2012, Hahn
launched Silfra with experimental prepared-pianist Hauschka. The
album was produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson and was entirely
improvised by Hahn and Hauschka following an intensive period of
development. Her latest album, Mozart 5, Vieuxtemps 4 - Violin
Concertos, pairs concerti that have played an active part in her
repertoire for more than 25 years.

Hahn is an avid writer, having posted journal entries for two
decades on her website, hilaryhahn.com, and published
articles in mainstream media. On her YouTube channel, youtube.com/hilaryhahnvideos,
she interviews colleagues about their experiences in music. Her
violin case comments on life as a traveling companion, on Twitter
and Instagram at @violincase. In 2001, Hahn was named "America's
Best Classical Musician" by Time magazine, and
in 2010, she appeared on The Tonight Show with
Conan O'Brien. Hahn was featured in the Oscar-nominated soundtrack
to The Village and has participated in a number
of non-classical productions, collaborating on two records by the
alt-rock band ….And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, on the
album Grand Forks by Tom Brosseau, and on tour
with folk-rock singer-songwriter Josh Ritter.